The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-08

restore this split, and fractured, and de.
spoiled, and unstrung nature until first it
shall wall out for our sin, and then thrill
with divine pardon.
! The whole world must also be attuned
| by the same power. A few days ago /
was in the Fairbanks Weighing Scale
Mandatory of Vermont. Six hundred
hands, and they have never had strike.
Complete harmony between labor and cap
| ital, the operatives of scores of years in
their beautiful homes near By the man
sions of the manufacturers whose in
vention and Christian behavior made the
great enterprise. So all the world over
| labor and capital will be brought in
euphony.
| You may have heard what is called the
'Anvil Chorus" composed by Verdi, q
tune played by hammers, great and small,
now with mighty stroke, and now
with heavy stroke, beating q great
iron anvil. That is what the
world has got to come .o-anvil
chorus, yard-stick chorus, shuttle chorus,
| trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pick-axe
| chorus, gold-mine chorus, rai-track
chorus, locomotive chorus. 1t can be done,
and it will be done. So all social life will
| be attuned by the Gospel harp. There will
| be as many classes in society as now, but
| the classes will not be regulated by birth,
| or wealth, or accident, but by the scale of
| virtue and benevolence, aid people will
be assigned to their places as good, or
| very good, or most excellent. So, also,
| commercial life will be attuned, and there
| will be twelve in every dozen, aud sixteen
ounces in every pound aud apples at the
bottom of the barrel as sound as those
| on the top, and silk goods will not be half
cotton, and sellers viii not have to charge
honest people mora than the right price
because others will not pay, and goods
will come to you corresponding
| with the sample by which you purchased
them, and coffee will not be chickoried,
and sugar will not be sanded, and mil k
will not be chalked, and adulteration of
food will be a States prison offense. Aye,
all things shall be attuned. Elections in
England and the United States will no
more be a grand carnival of defamation
and scurrility, but the elevation of right
| eous man in righteous way.
In the ixteenth century the singers
called the Fischer Brothers reached the
lowest bass ever recorded, and the high est
note ever thrilled was by La Bastardella,
| and CatalinPs vo;ce had a compass of
| is more wonderful; for 1t runs all up and
down the greatest heights and the deep
| ests depths of the worlds necessity, and
it will compass ev cry thing and bring
it in accord with the song
which the morning stars sang at the lay
ing of the worlds corner stone. All the
sacred music in homes, and concert halls
and churches tends toward this consum-
nation. Make it more and more hearty.
Sing in your families. Sing in your
places of business. If we with proper
spirit use these faculties, we are rehears.
ing for the skies.
Heaven is to have new song, an en-
tirely new song, but l should not wonder
If, as sometime q tune on earth is fash
toned out of many tunes, or it is one tune
with the variations, so some of the songs
of the redeemed may have playing
through them the songs of earth; and how
thrilling, as coming through the great an
them of the saved, accompanied by harp
ers with their harps and trumpeters
with their trumpets, we should hear some
of the strains of Antioch" and mount
Pisgah" aud Coronation" and "Lsn-
OK" and "St Martins" and "Fountain,"
and "Ariel," aud "Old Hundred" How
they would bring to mind the praying
circles and communion days, and the
Christmas festivals, and the church wor-
ship in which on earth we mingled! l
have no idea that when we bid farewell to
heart we are to bid farewell to
all these grand old Gospel hymns, which
melted and raptured our souls for so MANY
years. Now, my friends, if sin is discord
and Righteousness is harmony, let US get
out of the one and enter the other. After
our dreadful civil war was over and in
the summer of 1869, great
National peace jubilee was held
in Boston, and, as an elder of the church
had been honored by the selection of some
of his music to be rendered on that occa-
sion, I accompanied him to the jubilee.
Forty thousand people sat and stood in
the great Coliseum erected for that pur-
pose. Thousands of wind and stringed in
struments. Twelve thousand trained
voices. The masterpieces of all ages rer.
dered, hour after hour and day after day
Handles "Judas Maccabaeus," Sphor's
"Last Judgment" BeethoTen's 'Mount of
Olives" Haydn's Creation" Mendels-
sohn's "Eijah," Meyerbeer's "Corna-
ton March" rolling on and up in surges
that beloved against the heavens!
The mighty cadences within were
accompanied On the outside by
the ringing of the bells of the city,
and cannon on the commons, in exact
time with the music, discharged by cleo
tricity, laundering their awful bars of
harmony that astonished all nations.
Sometime I bowed my head and wept.
Sometimes stood up in the enchantment,
and sometimes tho effect was so over
towering felt could not endure it.
When all the voices were in full chorus.
and all the batons in full wave, and all
the orchestra in full triumph, and
hundred anvils under mighty
hammers were in full clang,
and all the towers of the CITY rolled in
their majectic sweetness, and the whole
building quaked with the boom of thirty
cannon. Parepa Rosa, with voice that
will never again be equaled on earth un.
til the Archangelic voice proclams that
time shall be no longer, rose above all
other sounds in her rendering of our ma
tional air, the Star Spangled Banner. 1t
was too much for a mortal, and quite
enough for an immortal, to hear, and
while some tainted, one womanly spirit.
released under its power, sped away to
be with God
Q, Lord, our God, quickly usher in the